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Mars rover views spectacular layered rock
Newest images from the Curiosity Rover: Martian landscapes and rocky outcrops that look almost like the U.S. Southwest.
September 14, 2016
Impossibly bright monster pulsars
Astronomers in Japan used a supercomputer and a hypothetical neutron star to explain blinking, enigmatic objects known as Ultra Luminous X-ray pulsars.
September 12, 2016
Glorious new images show Titan’s dunes
Cassini spacecraft will begin its grand finale at Saturn in 2017. This was one of Cassini's last close flybys of Saturn's large moon, Titan.
September 11, 2016
Fun! Enterprise Nebulae
More examples of pareidolia, seeing familiar objects in unrelated patterns. These 2 nebulae will be close to the hearts of Star Trek fans.
September 9, 2016
See asteroid mission launch September 8
NASA's first sample return mission to an asteroid launches Thursday at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 UTC). Links here to follow the mission online.
September 8, 2016
A rare relic of the early Milky Way
Terzan 5 looks like an ordinary globular cluster, but has stars of hugely different ages. Some of its stars are similar to the Milky Way's most ancient stars.
September 7, 2016
Small asteroid to pass very close today
Asteroid 2016 RB1 will pass safely - at about the distance of our geosynchronous satellites - on September 7, 2016.
September 7, 2016
Brown dwarfs hiding in plain sight
Brown dwarfs are like stars, but too small to ignite fusion in their cores and so shine as stars do. If you saw one, it wouldn't be brown. It'd be magenta.
September 7, 2016
Listen to Jupiter’s auroras
Plus more cool stuff from the Juno spacecraft's August 27 closest-yet flyby of Jupiter.
September 6, 2016
Update on Dawn mission to Ceres
The Dawn spacecraft is still orbiting Ceres. It went into an extended mission mode on July 1. Some mission highlights and current thinking, here.
September 6, 2016
